National Republican., 1887-08-29
EQUALITY OF THE SEXES.
THERE ARE MASCULINE WOMEN AND
EFFEMINATE MEN.
DR.. Talnage Thinks That All This
Talk of the Superiority of One Sex
Over the Other In intellectually aud
Affection Is u Waste of Power.

portunlty" was the subject OF discourse by the
Rev. T. De Witt Talmsge, ID, to-day; and his
text, $50 God created man in His own image,
the image Of God created lie him; male and
female created lie acknowledgements |: ~. Fol-
lowing is the sermon in full
In other words, God, who can make no m is
take. made man and woman for specific
work, and to move In particular spheres-man
70 be regnant in his realm woman TO be dom
inant in hers. The boundary line between
Italy and Switzerland, between England and
Scotland, is not more thoroughly marked than
this distinction between the empire masculine
and the empire feminine. SO entirely dis.
similar are the fields to which God calledthem
than you can no more compare them than Won
can oxygen and hydrogen, water and gross,
All this talk about the super ority of ono
sex to the other sex il an everlasting waste
OF ink and speech. A jeweler may have scale
70 s deica,e h mat he can weigh the dust Of dia-
that you can weigh In them affection against
ahection, sentiment against sentiment, thought
against thought, soul against, soul, q mans
world against woman's world? You come
out with your stereotyped remark the man
issuperior to woman in intellect; and then
open on my desk the swarthy, iron.typed,
'nean Eydbss, EE1i,Pbss of Harriet Star
George Eliot You come on with
your siereotyped remark about woman's 5
superioiiiy to man in the item of affection,
TO love than in John the disciple, aud Robert
McCheyne, the Scotchman, I'D John Summer.
held the Methodist, ana Henry Martin, the
missionaIy' The heart of those men was so
hemispberes, there was room still left to mar
the the throne of tho eternal ,Jeho-
Intellectual. deny to n Woman sns the hrone throne
ah, ctional. No human phraseology will ever
define the spheres, while there Is an intuition
hy W which d,a we si know when man is ia his
and when either of them is out of Il. No
bungliDg legislature ought to attempt to make
ard d4ehnhition, or to say: This is the line
that If woman wants TO vote she ought to
vote, and that IL man wants to embroider
and Keep house, he ought 70 be allowed to EN-.
ome Sroder and ND Keep house There are masculine
theory is, that you have no right to interfere
WIN any ones doing anything that is righteous.
Albany and Washington might as we'll decree
should fly, or how deep trout should plunge,
as 10 try to seek out the height or the
depth OF Woman's duty. The question Of
csIaci,y VIII settle finally the whole question,
pared TO preach she will preach, and neither
conference nor presbytery can hinder her.
When woman Is prepared to move in high
influence on the exchange, and no boards of
trade can hinder her. want woman to under.
stand that heart and brain can overly any
barrier that politicians may set up, and that
nothing can keep her back or keep her down
put the question OF incapacity.
,There are women. know, of most undesira.
pie nature, who wander up and down the
forsaking. their own homes talking about
their rights; and we know very well that thew
themselves are fit neither to vote, nor fit to
kp Keep house; Their mission scents to be to
n n ntUpIN NsNfx hat
any one OF us might become. No one would
want TO live under the laws that such women
would enact, or 10 have cast upon society
But shall show you this morning that the
best rights that women can own, she already
mas IN her possession; that her position in this
country at this time is not one OF commiser-
grandeur and power Of her realm have never
yet been appreciated; that she sits to-day on
throne so high that all the thrones Of earth
her footstool.. Here is the platform on which
she stands. Away down below 1t are the
ballot box and the congressional ossemblage
ana the legislative hall. Woman always has
fathers though they were by their votes putting
Washington into the presidential chair. No.
HIS mother, by the principles she taught him,
President, ltwas a Christian mothers hand
dropping the ballot when Lord Bacon wrote,
and Newton philosophical. and Alfred the
SIeat governed, and Jonathan Edwards
there have been in high political station, who
would have been insufficient to stand the test
10 which their moral principle was put had 1t
them to do right. and q wife's prayer that
sounded louder than the clamor of partisan
ship! Why, my friends, the right of suffrage,
n we men exercise II, seems to be feeble
hing You, Christian man, come up to the
ballot-box and you drop your vote. Right after
you comes a libcrtine, or sot-the
oiiscouring OF the street-and he drops his
the quiet OF home life a daughter by her Chris
tian demeanor, a wife by her industry, q
mother by her falthfulness, casts vote in tho
right direction, then nothing can resist 1t. and
ne influence OF that vote will throb through
The eternities.
My chief anxiety then Is, not that woman
have other rights accorded her, but that she,
lion Of the glorious Tights she already pos
'esses. This morning shall only have time
% speak OF one grand and all.absorbing right
every woman has. and that Is TO make home
happy. That realm no ono has ever dis
puted with her. Men may como home at
noon or night, and they tarry q comparatively
little while: but che, all day long, governs 1t.
power to make II the most attractive place on
earth. II is the only calm harbor in this
world. You know as well as i do that this
outside world and the business world is a long
has dollar struggles to keep II; the man who
mas It not struggles to get It. Prices up. Prices
ioWn. Losses. Gain. Representation.
ng; saiesmen eTasseratlng. Tensntso taoS.eI SSsellnr
ess rent; landlords demanding more, Gold
idgetty. Struggles about office. Men who are
n Y trying to keep In; men out trying to get in.
.astrophes Owoman thank God you have a
lome, and that you may be queen In it.
Better be there than wear Victorias ooronet.
,ess.. Your abode may be humble, but y YOU m
'an. by your faith In God, and your cheerful.
1ess OF demeanor, gild 1t with splendors such
y an upholsteIers hand never yet kinded
tories; four plain, unpapered rooms. unde-
Iirable neighborhood. and yet there is a man
iere this morning who would die on that
$ home. Whenever he thinks Of It he sees
'ngels OF God lowering around II. The ladders
u heaven are let down to that house. Over
he cbild's rough crib there are the chantings
I Is home. These children may come up after
while, and they may win high position, and
hey may have an aiiiuent residence; but they
yiii y, not until their dying day forget that hum
heir mother sang and and their sisters played.
,, u you would gather up all tender memories,
VI me lights ana shades of the heart all ban.
uelines and reunions, all filial, fraternal, pa
ernal and conJugal affections, and you had
nly just four letters with which to spell out
hat heighth and depth and depth, and length
no breadth, and magnitude and eternity OF
neaning, with streaming eyes and trembling
oice and agitated hand, write 1t out IN those
onr living capitals, HOME.
Mhat iight does woman want that Is grander
nan TO be queen IN such realm? Why, the
agles OF heaven cannst fly across that domn-
IN. Horses painting and with lathered fianks,
re not swift enough 10 run to the outpost oil |
nat realm. They say that the sun never sets |
pom the English empire; but have to tell |
on ,sr,, ahat on this realm OF woman's influence,
lernlty never marks any bound. Isabella
ed from the Spanish throne, pursued by the |
atoms nnathema: but she who is queen I'm |
ome VIII never lose her throne, and death Il. |
~ VIII only be the annexation of heavenly |
When you want to get your grandest idea OF |
queen, you do not think Of Catharine OF |
heresa of Germany: but when you want 10 |
ct your grandest idea ofa queen, you think /
the plain woman who sat opposite your
ltber at the table, or walked with him arm |
q arm down LIES pathway; sometimes 10 the |
thanksgiving banquet, sometimes to the grave,